{"id":54019,"date":"2019-08-21T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=54019"},"modified":"2019-08-21T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:31:09","slug":"amir-zakis-skateparks-as-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=54019","title":{"rendered":"Amir Zaki&#8217;s Skateparks As Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/california-concrete-a-landscape-of-skateparks-amir-zaki_dezeen_2364_col_2-1704x1363-450x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/california-concrete-a-landscape-of-skateparks-amir-zaki_dezeen_2364_col_2-1704x1363.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/california-concrete-a-landscape-of-skateparks-amir-zaki_dezeen_2364_col_2-1704x1363-200x160.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amirzaki.net\"><strong>Amir Zaki<\/strong><\/a> sees skateparks as the works of art they really are, albeit with no skateboarders.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They are essentially large and elaborately designed empty vessels, as much as they are concrete models of naturally found elements of the landscape such as mountains, hills, waves, and rocks,&#8221; Zaki told <em>Dezeen<\/em>. . .&nbsp;&#8220;Although these refined spaces are born out of conceptions of the various curvilinear shapes found in nature, they are frozen and &#8216;permanently&#8217; cemented, recalling some of the most extreme examples of Brutalist architecture.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out all the dream lines in Zaki&#8217;s <em><strong>California Concrete<\/strong><\/em> series of images. Mind skating for hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2019\/08\/19\/california-concrete-a-landscape-of-skateparks-amir-zaki-merrell\/\">Dezeen<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Amir Zaki sees skateparks as the works of art they really are, albeit with no skateboarders. &#8220;They are essentially large and elaborately designed empty vessels, as much as they are concrete models of naturally found elements of the landscape such as mountains, hills, waves, and rocks,&#8221; Zaki told Dezeen. . .&nbsp;&#8220;Although these refined spaces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54021,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54019\/revisions\/54021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}